[This seems to be some ecclesiastical due payable on Hlaf-mass, or
Loaf-mass, commonly called Lammas-Day (August 1st). See Somner and
Junius. It was called Loaf or Bread-mass, because it was a day of
oblation of grain, or of bread made of new wheat; and was also the
holiday of St. Peter ad Vincula, when Peter-pence were paid. Du Cange
likewise mentions the _Panis benedictus_, and that money was given by
the recipients of it on the following occasion:--"Since the
catechumens," says he, "before baptism could neither partake of the
Divine Mysteries, nor consequently of the Eucharist, a loaf was
consecrated and given to them by the priest, whereby they were prepared
for receiving the body of Christ."]
_St. Philip's, Bristol._--Can you inform me when the Church of St. Philip,
Bristol, was made parochial, and in what year the Priory of Benedictines,
mentioned by William de Worcester in connexion with this church, was
dissolved, and when founded?